#ATAGTR2025 Program

Program Timeline
Call For Papers Jury
Program Team
16th June 2025
Competition 01 #10yearsofExperienceSharing

A chance for you to pen down and share your experience of previous editions of Global Testing Retreat.
Date - 16th June to 16th July 2025

16th June 2025
Call for Papers - Round 1

Abstract Submission - 16th June - 20th July
Jury Evalutions - 21st July - 16th Aug
Round 1 Results - By 20th Aug

31st July 2025
Competition 02 - #MonthEnd QuizATAhon
20th August 2025
Call for Papers - Round 2

Submission of PPT and Video - 20th Aug - 15th Sept
Jury Evalutions - 15th Sept - 5th October
Final Selection Notifications - 5th to 10th October

29th August 2025
Competition 03 #MonthEnd QuizATAhon
30th September 2025
Competition 04 #MonthEnd QuizATAhon
31st October 2025
Competition 05 #MonthEnd QuizATAhon
8th November 2025
Competiton 06 #AutomATAhon 2025

A team-based competition which is open to all organizations, teams will have to showcase their automation capabilities.

22nd November 2025
#ATAGTR2025 - Virtual Days

22nd & 23rd Nov (Sat, Sun)
Virtual Days will feature a mix of Keynote Sessions, Panel Discussions, and hands-on workshops

22nd November 2025
Competition 07 - LinkedIn Influencer Contest

This contest will be for all attendess who will join the #ATAGTR2025 Virutal Days on 22nd and 23 Nov

14th December 2025
#ATAGTR2025 - In Person Conference (Pune)

Global Testing Retreat, 2025 - 10th Edition will be in Pune. 

Competition 08

 Competitions for In Person Edition (Pune)
This details will follow soon

Jury

Aditya Garg

CEO, AvanteNow
Steering Committee Member,
Agile Testing Alliance

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Dhananjay Deshpande

Lead Systems Architect
Fujitsu

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Dhiren Shah

Co-founder
Factorial24

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Kavin Arvind Ragavan

Senior Performance Architect
Cognizant

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Pallavi Sharma

Founder
5 Elements Learning

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Rajesh Popli

QA Consultant & Automation Architect,
Nagarro

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Ritu Chowdhary

QC Director
Ubisoft

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Dr. Rituraj Patil

Founder of Product Practitioners Group of India

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Sanjivv Ssharma

Steering Committee Member
Agile Testing Alliance

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Sowmya Ramesh

Manager
2i

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Program Team

Abhay Kumar Singh

Staff Engineer Technical Lead
Nagarro

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Adesh Patwardhan

Information Technology and Services Professional
I2IT

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Aditya Garg

CEO, AvanteNow
Steering Committee Member,
Agile Testing Alliance

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Amit Kumar Tiwari

Entrepreneur | Founder & CEO Elatform

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Amol Deshpande

Director, R&D – Product
BMC Software

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Ankit Singh

Principal Product Security Engineer
AutoDesk

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Bhavani S Somaraju

Lead ET
Moolya Software Testing

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Deepthi K

Lead Advisory, Technical program management
Dell Technologies

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Dhiren Shah

Co-founder
Factorial24

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Ganesh Khairnar

Automation Architect
Wipro

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Harpreet Kaur Kahai

Performance Test Architect
Capgemini

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Harshada Surwase

Associate Software Engineer
Agile Testing Alliance

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Harsh Panwar

Social Media Marketing Executive
Agile Testing Alliance

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Harsh Shah

ATA India Coordinator
Agile Testing Alliance

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Hitesh Prajapati

SDET - 3
EPAM Systems

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Jyoti Shah

Project Lead
Persistent

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Mohan Swaminathan

Administrator
I2IT

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Nagesh Deshpande

Scrum Master - Agile Lead
Coforge

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Omkar Pilvankar

Associate
Morgan Stanley

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Pallavi Sharma

Founder
5 Elements Learning

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Parinita Rastogi

QA Engineer
Nagarro

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Payal Khiradkar

Associate Team Lead
StockX

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Piyush Bohra

Servicenow Snowflake Cloud Business Lead
QAAgility

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Rituraj Patil

Founder of Product Practitioners Group of India

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Rohit Mehta

Practice Head – Quality and Automation Testing
Pratham Software (PSI)

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Sumit Mundhada

Deputy General Manager – Automation Testing
_VOIS

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Swapnil Khambayat

T&P Department
I2IT

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Vishal Parmar

QA Automation Lead
CLOUDSUFI

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Kusum Ketu

Senior Staff Engineer
Nagarro

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Yogesh Bande

Sr. QA Engineer
FirstCry

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Kavin Arvind Ragavan is a Senior Performance Architect at Cognizant, where he leads initiatives at the intersection of Performance Engineering, Chaos Engineering, Observability, and Generative AI. With over 15 years of experience in performance engineering and more than 5 years in SRE and chaos testing, he specializes in designing robust performance assurance strategies for cloud-native and hybrid environments—especially on AWS.
Kavin is widely recognized for transforming traditional performance testing through AI-driven automation. He has built intelligent frameworks using GitHub Copilot and AWS Bedrock that accelerate test scripting, automate root cause analysis, and enhance observability integration. His expertise spans tools such as LoadRunner, NeoLoad, JMeter, Dynatrace, Splunk ITSI, and various AWS services, which he seamlessly integrates into performance monitoring and resilience validation workflows.
As an AWS Community Builder and frequent conference speaker (STAR EAST, Global Testing Retreat, Chaos Carnival, AWS Summits), Kavin actively contributes to the global tech community. Off-stage, you’ll find him crafting prompts, experimenting with AI models, or convincing teams that Copilot is their new best friend in test design.
His current focus is on building GenAI-powered platforms to advance performance engineering and when not architecting solutions, Kavin mentors engineering teams, writes technical blogs, and explores how emerging technologies like Agentic AI, large language models (LLMs), and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) are redefining the future of performance and site reliability engineering

Rituraj Patil
– Product + Engineering / Technology + Lean Agile Leadership, Culture, and Management Enthusiast
– I love R&D, Consulting, Advisory, Mentoring, Coaching, Teaching, Training, and Facilitation
– Hands-on expertise in Agile IT / Software Product Development, Delivery, and Management
– Founder of Product Practitioners Group of India community and Advisor with multiple global entities
– Worked as Associate Director – Product / Digital Engineering at MOURI Tech in India
– Worked as Agile / Product Coach for multiple IT Product Development Teams under multiple Alliances (Portfolios) at HelloFresh in Germany
– Worked in various techno-functional roles / capacities at Rockwell Automation, Tetra Pak, Atos, ADP, and Cognizant in India, Sweden, and Italy
– Published Author of the Book “Mastering Advanced Scrum”
– Currently writing a Book in “AI Product Management” space
– Holding 8 (3 Indian, 3 Australian, and 2 UK) Innovation R&D Patents